OvertureMaps / OvertureMaps/schema
Place operating_status and confidence schema descriptions are inaccurate
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Since Jun 3, 2026.
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Description
Description
The schema description for operating_status and confidence currently says:
Similarly, the schema definition for confidence says:
Places with operating_status set to 'closed' will have a confidence score of 0.
As far as I know, we don't have a mechanism that sets the operating status to "permanently_closed" when the confidence is 0, nor vice versa. Most feeds do not provide an operating status anyway, but for RenderSEO, for example, the logic is decoupled (at least during ingest):
Furthermore, I thought we had decided to decouple the interpretation of confidence from operating status. In other words, confidence only indicates whether a place record exists or is junk.
Proposed change
Remove the mentions of the coupling between operating_status and confidence in the places schema description and definition.
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